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The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority in a government agency that was started in 2002 to build the transportation system of Austin. Mike Heiligenstein is the executive director of the authority since it was started. He attended the University of Texas where he graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Government.

Mike was a founding board member of Envision Central Texas project and the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council. Heiligenstein is a member of the board of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, and the Texas Transportation Institute. He serves on the committees of various transportation organizations in the Austin area.

CTRMA has committed itself to building mobility solutions for the Austin community. The authority made the US 290 toll road which increased the capacity of the road by improving upon the non-toll lanes that were there before.

The authority is developing the MoPac Express Lanes which will incorporate variable tolling to manage traffic flow. The variable tolling system helps to manage the supply and demand. This ensures that traffic is predictable.

CTRMA has worked to integrate technology into its projects to build smart roads. The embedding of fiber cables in the roads will mean that cars will be able to communicate with road infrastructure in future.

CTRMA collaborated with Metropia to develop a mobile app that recommends alternative routes to commuters. The app is hooked up to the traffic monitoring system. It compiles the data in real-time.

There are close to a million empty seats in cars in Austin each day according to data. CTRMA partnered with Carma to encourage more people to carpool in order to solve this issue. Carma is a ridesharing app. This will help with congestion because there will be fewer cars on the road.

The Urban Mobility Scorecard suggested various solutions to fix the transportation problems in Austin. One of the proposed solutions was the need to get people to use alternative modes of transport. CTRMA has done this by providing pedestrian and cyclist paths along the projects that they have developed. Mike Heiligenstein has helped to grow the agency into a recognized leader in toll roads nationally.

Brian Bonar is a financial expert and an investor in San Diego. Currently, he is the CEO and chairman of Trucept, Inc. Trucept is a company that deals with small and medium institutions by completing their tasks such as managing their human resources administration, managing payrolls, taxes, risk management, and the employee benefits.

Trucept also ensures that it respects the qualities of the client business while it makes decisions for them and offering both temporary and long-term staffing solutions. Some of his areas of expertise include aviation, K-12 education projects, retail, commercial, multi-family housing, among others.

Mr. Brian’s knowledge comes from his education background where he has a Bachelors and a Master’s degree in Technical and Mechanical Engineering from James Watt Technical College and Stafford University. In 2000 he received the Who’s Who in America. Over his career life, Brian has developed a reputation as a leader who is inspired to achieve the goals and aspirations of his clients, team members, and project partners.

Bloomberg reported that Brian Bonar has also been the President of Tradeshow Products Inc., CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Dalrada Financial Corp. since 2001 and Amanda Co. Inc. from 2002.

President Donald Trump made a proposal to focus the over $3 trillion federal budget to the national security that includes local law enforcement, Border patrol, and the boosts to the military.

The proposal also includes cutting domestic programs and foreign aid with the Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget of $462 billion in domestic funding and $603 billion in defense spending.

The plan aims at keeping America safe, keeping out criminals, terrorists, and putting violent offenders behind bars or removing them from America. Some of the programs that are in for discussion on cutting them include the Obama administration’s climate initiatives.

The proposed increase in defense is one of a kind in the history of the American politics, with a total of $54 billion above the Budget Control Act spending caps for defense.

Obama administration proposed a defense budget higher than the spending caps in 2018, but it was not as high compared to that of the Trump Administration that has an increase of $18.5 billion.

Law enforcement will focus on the local and urban areas that are known for violence. However, Trump has hinted that the budget would stick to the fiscal standards and his agendas like infrastructure, roads, bridges, and tunnels.

According to an OMB official, the budget calls for the rest of the world to take charge for some of the programs that America has been funding because it is expected to cut down the amount spent on foreign aid.